Don't hold in your secrets. Never

More proof of the horrible abuse and neglect I lived with from 1972 to 1985 at the hands of my father and step-mother.

These messages were from a neighbor and childhood friend.

I was conditioned to long periods of verbal abuse.  It's probably the reason I put up with it from Wael for so long.  Because I was used to holding it all in and pretending everything was normal.